Metropolitan State University of Denver.

What the Student Code of Conduct says about how cases proceed

Who may be present

"The impacted party and the responding party have the right to have any advisor or support person they choose, at their own expense, to be present during any meeting related to the conduct process. … Respondents are responsible for speaking for themselves during the conduct process. The advisor serves in a supportive role for the party and cannot speak on behalf on the student … The advisor may be an attorney." Recording of a conduct meeting is not addressed anywhere in the Code; meetings are stated to be conducted "in private." — Student Code of Conduct 2024-2025, Article IV.B (retrieved Sep 14, 2026) · Student Code of Conduct 2024-2025 (PDF)

What follows on the record

"Resolutions shall not be made part of the student's academic transcript but shall become part of the student's conduct file." A "conduct file" is "part of a student's educational record" and is "kept confidential" under FERPA; "[a] written waiver signed by the student is required for release of disciplinary records to third parties not otherwise mandated by relevant law." No retention period (a number of years) is stated. Separately, a "Permanent F" grade — distinct from a Code "resolution" — is recorded as a course grade and, per the Dean of Students' student FAQ, "stays permanently on your transcript." — same source, Article IV.C.3 and Article IV.F

The two questions an adviser raises first, answered from this institution's own published documents — or recorded as not stated in them.

From the Student Code of Conduct 2024-2025 (retrieved Sep 14, 2026):

Status outcomes for academic misconduct include warning, probation, suspension, and expulsion; a student conduct "[w]arning … remains in the student's file in perpetuity." Appeal: "The respondent may appeal a decision reached by the Conduct Administrator or a resolution imposed by the Conduct Administrator within five (5) working days of the decision," in writing, to the Dean of Students Office, on one of four grounds — procedural fairness, whether the finding was supported by a preponderance of the evidence, whether the resolution was appropriate, or new information unavailable earlier. On review, "the Appeals Administrator's decision is considered final," and "review of the resolution(s) by the Appeals Administrator may not result in a more severe resolution(s) for the respondent." Separately, the Dean of Students' student FAQ states that a student who drops the course where the incident occurred forfeits the right to appeal: "Please note that a student must remain enrolled in the course where the incident occurred in order to be able to appeal the outcome."

Source: Student Code of Conduct 2024-2025 (PDF) and Student FAQ's: Academic Misconduct — Dean of Students. What any of this means for a particular case is for the institution and its process to determine.

Revision history of this page

2026-09-14 — Page created. Cold build (no prior CANDIDATES.md or procedure-facts.json research to reuse); Priority A, tranche 4, entry 118. Named-vendor sweep (Turnitin, SimCheck, Originality, Copyleaks, iThenticate, GPTZero, Originality.ai, Winston AI, Crossplag, ZeroGPT, Packback, Grammarly Authorship, Honorlock, Proctorio, Respondus, Examity) and category sweep (CTLD teaching-technology site, AI and Assessment guidance hub, Dean of Students academic-misconduct pages) found Turnitin confirmed for plagiarism/similarity checking, with an unusually direct first-party disclaimer that it is not used for AI detection: "Please note that Turnitin is not an AI detection tool" (CTLD Ready tutorial). NOTABLE FINDING: the AI and Assessment guidance states "AI detection tools are not reliable enough to serve as evidence on their own. Detection results should not be treated as proof of misconduct," directing suspected AI misuse instead through process evidence, a follow-up conversation, and established academic-integrity procedures. NOT DISQUALIFIED: this discourages relying on a class of tool that was never confirmed deployed for AI-writing detection in the first place (the confirmed detector, Turnitin's similarity function, is expressly for a different purpose and is not described as disabled anywhere on msudenver.edu) — the same reasoning applied to UC Santa Cruz's data-handling caution and Miami University's recommendation-against in this pass. Process captured from the Student Code of Conduct 2024-2025 (PDF, retrieved and read via the Read tool's PDF extraction rather than a text scrape, 17 pages) and the Dean of Students' Student FAQ's: Academic Misconduct page. The Code supplies the preponderance-of-evidence standard (Article I §11, Article IV.A), advisor/support-person rights (present but may not speak for the student; must be named at least 3 business days before the meeting), the sanctions list (warning, probation, suspension, expulsion, plus administrative/educational resolutions), and a four-ground appeal process with a five-working-day window to the Dean of Students Office, decided by an Appeals Administrator whose decision "is considered final" and who "may not" increase a sanction on a student's own appeal (Article IV.E). NOTABLE RECORD-KEEPING DISTINCTION, reproduced rather than resolved: Code "resolutions" (warning, probation, suspension, etc.) explicitly do NOT go on the academic transcript and instead form a confidential "conduct file" under FERPA (Article IV.C.3, IV.F), while a "Permanent F" — a grade, not a Code resolution — does appear permanently on the transcript per the Dean of Students' own student FAQ. No retention period in years is stated for the conduct file, unlike several other built pages in this collection; recorded as an absence. Recording of a conduct meeting is not addressed anywhere in the Code; meetings are stated only to be "conducted in private." A further finding worth flagging: the Student FAQ states a student who drops the course where the incident occurred forfeits the right to appeal — an eligibility condition tied to enrollment status that a reader could easily miss. OMBUDS/ADVOCACY CHECKED AND EXCLUDED: MSU Denver's University Ombuds Team page states plainly it serves "faculty, staff, administrators and student-employees" — not the general undergraduate reader this page addresses — so it is not presented as available. A search-engine-generated summary separately claimed the Ombuds Office had been "closed indefinitely" for cost reasons; two direct fetches of the live page (msudenver.edu/ombuds/ and its temp.msudenver.edu mirror) on Sep 14, 2026 show neither a closure notice nor any change to the student-employee-only scope, so that closure claim is not reproduced here, following the same rule that kept an uncorroborated Proctorio claim off the UNM page in this pass. The "Access, Advocacy & Accountability" umbrella page (Dean of Students, Student Care Center, Access Center) uses general "advocacy" language without naming academic integrity or academic misconduct, and claims no independence or confidentiality, so it is likewise not adopted; the docket states the absence. Office contact (Dean of Students Office: Tivoli 343, 900 Auraria Parkway, Denver, CO; 303-615-0220) captured from the office's own contact page; only individual staff emails are published there (JavaScript-obfuscated), no general office email, so the docket states that absence rather than reproducing a personal address. Nothing paraphrase-pending. Archive captures pending — not requested this pass (unattended scheduled run). Reviewer: Carrie Schluter (review confirmed 2026-09-14).

2026-09-17 — Internet Archive captures requested this date by an automated capture pass; no human review is claimed for this entry. No quotation, date, finding or link above was changed by it. Each capture below was requested through Save Page Now and then confirmed to play back. No source on this page could be captured in this pass. Not captured because the publisher refuses the Archive's fetcher — each of these returns normally to an ordinary browser, so the source is unchanged and only the capture is missing: Use Turnitin to Check for Plagiarism - CTLD Ready (HTTP 200 to the Archive); AI and Assessment - MSU Denver (HTTP 200 to the Archive); Current Student Code Of Conduct — www.msudenver.edu (HTTP 200 to the Archive); Student FAQ's: Academic Misconduct - MSU Denver (HTTP 200 to the Archive); Academic Misconduct - MSU Denver (HTTP 200 to the Archive); Contact Us - Dean of Students Office - MSU Denver (HTTP 200 to the Archive); University Ombuds Team - MSU Denver (HTTP 200 to the Archive); Access, Advocacy & Accountability - MSU Denver (HTTP 200 to the Archive).

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